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It's that time again, time for me to sit down

and share with you all a list of some things that I like right now.

Call this a list of current favorites.

Call this a list of current obsessions.

Call it whatever you want.

But today, that's what I'm gonna be sharing with you all.

And I do this pretty frequently because I'm the type of person that will become obsessed with something for like two months, and then I'll ultimately discard it and replace it with something else.

And it's not because I don't like the thing that I became obsessed with and then discarded anymore.

It's just that I've probably found something that's more exciting to me.

I like to keep my life spicy.

I'm somebody who definitely sticks to a routine.

And so I rely on switching little elements of my routine up to keep my life dynamic and exciting.

I'm not the type of person to eat the same breakfast every single day for 10 years.

I'm the type of person to eat the same breakfast every day for two months and then switch it up.

This is just who I am.

And I do feel like I go through really intense phases with things where I become obsessed

and then I ultimately discard it.

So that's why I'm able to make these episodes as frequently as I do.

So without further ado, this is a list of some of the things that I like right now.

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Now back to the episode.

Starting with a quiet, mindful morning routine.

Okay.

I feel like for a long time, I didn't really think too much about my morning routine.

Like I would just wake up and then kind of do whatever.

I mean, there were certain things that were consistent, right?

Like make my coffee, get to work in whatever way I needed to get to work that particular morning.

You know, I'd go to the bathroom.

I've had phases where I've exercised in the mornings.

I'm not currently in a phase like that right now.

I exercise in the afternoons right You know, it's kind of my vibe, but I don't know.

Like I've never thought too much about my morning routine or like, how do I put this?

I have thought about it, but not from a mental health way, in more of like a technical way.

I've looked at my morning routine in the past from like a productivity perspective.

And recently I had an experience where I kind of girl bossed myself to death, I think.

And it led me to an extreme exhaustion that, well, if you want to know all about that, listen to my last episode about, I think I titled it something like,

I finally learned how to rest or whatever.

And I took a week to just rest and do it effectively.

And during that week of pure, good quality rest, I got into the habit of a slow morning, a quiet morning, and it stuck.

Now I'm back to work.

I'm not resting anymore.

And this has stuck.

And it's so wonderful.

I've been waking up a little earlier to do it, but it's been so worth it.

The quiet morning routine for me is as follows.

I wake up, I go downstairs, I make my coffee.

And first thing I do is I journal immediately.

Just brain dump into the journal.

But I don't force myself to do it if it doesn't feel right for me, right?

Like there have been phases in my life where I've been really into journaling

and then phases where I've sort of let it go because I haven't needed it as much.

But recently, I need it.

And so it's been great.

I sit down and I journal anywhere between one page to like four pages, depending on what I need to get out.

And what I journal about is usually what's going on in my life

and an analysis of what's going on in my life, basically.

I try to balance documentation of what's going on in my life with an analysis of what's going on in my life.

And that seems to be the perfect balance for me

because there have been times in my life where I've kind

of forced myself to journal just to sort of document what's going on in my life.

And that's not useful enough to me to get me into the habit of it.

I think the analysis element is what makes it so valuable and it's incredibly peaceful and incredibly grounding.

And then after that, I go for a morning walk outside.

I prefer to do this in complete silence.

No headphones in, no music, no nothing.

Just the birds chirping, the crisp air on the face alone.

I will make an exception if there's someone to catch up with on the phone

and like that's the only time that we'll be able to chat or there's something really pressing like, oh, I really want to tell.

Then maybe I'll call someone, but I would say four to five times I'm walking in silence

and taking the first 30 minutes to an hour of the day to be silent

and calm and to reflect and to think just keeps me chill for the rest of the day.

Because I feel like I used to wake up and immediately just boom, boom, boom, start doing shit immediately, boom, boom, boom.

And then the rest of the day was just chaotic and high energy and ugh.

And so it's been really wonderful.

Okay, moving on.

Another thing I've really been enjoying is going grocery shopping at night.

There's something about the energy at the grocery store at night that is magical to me.

For a long time, I would grocery shop after my workout class in the afternoon, which was fine.

It was kind of like habit stacking, if you will, as they call it.

Like you combine two habits.

And that was great.

That was fine.

That was productive.

And I still do that sometimes, but I'm in a phase of my life right now where I'm single.

Let's put it how it is.

I'm single for the first time in many years for an extended period of time.

And it's very easy for me to just like never leave the house except for to go to my workout.

And so I've been sort of trying to find ways to get out of the house more, especially during the week.

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And so there are times when I feel a bit restless in the evenings, especially because I think when nightfall comes, the thoughts start to get a bit sadder.

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And so it can be nice to kind of get out and get some fresh air.

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But I don't want to go on a walk at night because that's kind of scary.

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But going to the grocery store at night where it's well lit when there's people around, love that.

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And the vibe is incredible.

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There's just something peaceful about it.

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It's quiet.

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There's not a lot of people there usually.

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You can really just roam the aisles as though time doesn't exist

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because the lack of people in there just kind of makes the energy more calm.

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You don't feel this rush.

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There's something about the fluorescent lights when it's dark out at night.

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I don't know.

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There's something weirdly invigorating about it.

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Also too, for me living in Los Angeles, there's no traffic.

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I don't know.

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There's just something kind of magical about the energy.

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I can't quite put a finger on it.

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You just have to experience it for yourself.

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Actually, you probably have experienced it for yourself.

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You know what I'm talking about?

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That nighttime grocery store magic.

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I just, I don't know.

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Okay, next, reading before bed.

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I know what you're thinking.

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Emma, why are all the things that you're talking about not that fun?

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It's like, okay, first, I love just having a slow morning.

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Then I love going to the grocery store at night.

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It's so peaceful.

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It's like, Emma, these are boring things.

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Talk about something fun.

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Those things are coming later.

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I just had to get this stuff out of the way first.

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I have gone through various phases of reading in my life, and I fell out of it for probably a year, honestly.

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I just could not get into it.

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Like I can't even tell you how many times I tried to get back into reading and it just did not work.

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And in retrospect, it's because I was overworking myself unnecessarily in my work life.

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It made me so exhausted that by the end of the day, I could not, I could not focus on a book.

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Like my brain couldn't do it.

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And it was my fault.

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Like it was unnecessary.

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And as I mentioned earlier, I recently sort of had a reset of sorts.

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I'm not overdoing it like I was before.

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I'm not beating myself up.

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And it's allowed me this mental space to read again.

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Because I started reading during my week of rest because I had nothing better to do.

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And I really enjoyed it.

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And then I've been able to bring it into my routine, thankfully, because it's so nice, particularly reading before bed.

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For a long time, I would watch some sort of content before bed because as I said, I was too exhausted.

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I was too exhausted.

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I couldn't open a book, you know?

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I had just overused my brain all day and stressed myself out

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so bad that I didn't have any energy left to do anything remotely challenging.

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And reading is a little challenging.

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It requires a bit of discipline to crack open a book, especially when there's easy content being fed to us all the time.

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So luckily I've taken a load off enough in my life to be able to read before bed.

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And it's great because it's so much more peaceful, but it's so hard to get into it.

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It's so hard to get into it.

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You have to have like the perfect homeostasis in your life to have the energy to read these days.

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It's, but it's taken me shifting other elements of my life so that I have the mental space to read.

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But now that I'm reading at the end of the day, I feel like I sleep so much better.

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I'm also doing something that's good for my brain before bed.

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Um, so I'm loving it.

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Okay.

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Let's, let's move on to fun stuff now.

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That was all so boring.

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You guys, ew, why did I start with all that boring stuff.

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Next, playing charades.

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Okay.

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Over the holidays, my friends and I went on a little trip and honestly,

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I don't think it's exaggerating to say we played charades the whole trip and I became obsessed with charades.

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Okay.

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There are many different ways you can play charades, but the particular way that we were playing charades was basically somebody would be the,

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let's say the host, and then the rest of the people would split off into groups, perhaps two or three groups, And all the teams are competing against each other.

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Now, oh my God, this is so complicated.

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Do you care?

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Do I need to explain this?

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Whatever.

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I'm going to explain it just in case you, it's called running charades.

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Long story short, I'm going to keep it short because you can Google it if you really want to play this.

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Basically, the idea is that the host has a list of things to act out

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and the team sends one representative up to start and get the first word.

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let's say it's taylor swift that's a person um as you know no

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but let's say the first yeah the first person the first

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charade is taylor swift they'll get the word taylor swift

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and then run back to their group and act out taylor swift

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and then whoever guesses it runs back to the host

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and says what's the next word then they'll go back

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and act it out

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and whatever team finishes the list first wins i'm obsessed with this game you have to get

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so creative to act out certain things

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because like how do you act out the band cage the

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elephant it's hard you have to get creative like you know

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next thing you know you're like okay four words okay fourth word uh

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and then you're like pretending that you're an elephant everybody's like elephant

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and then you're like okay but it's also a band

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and you're like mimicking a band it's like so chaotic

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but it is kind of amazing how creative everybody gets

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and then when you like guess one and it was so hard to get but somehow

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you were able to almost speak telepathically with people on your team.

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And oh, it's so good.

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You guys have to play this with your friends, have a game night and play running charades.

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You won't regret it.

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It's just the best fucking game.

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It's the best game.

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And it's all I've been thinking about ever since the holidays.

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And I've not seen my friends since the holidays.

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Everyone's busy.

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Okay.

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Everyone has stuff to do.

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I need to play running charades.

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I'm freaking out.

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Anyway.

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Okay moving on to subtle nail art.

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I know when you think of nail art, you think of someone getting excited to go to the Wicked movie and getting Glinda and Alphaba portraits painted onto their nails.

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And you think of somebody's birthday set of nails, having candles and cakes drawn all over the nails, a nail set that took four hours to complete.

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I know this is what you think of when you think of nail art, because for a long time, this is what I thought of.

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Well, open your mind to subtle nail art.

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Listen, this is not a new concept.

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We all know what subtle nail art is, but I feel like the nail art trend got

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so extreme for a minute there where everyone was getting the most detailed sets of nails.

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It was like, whoa.

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And then it sort of became, at least for me, this thing where I was like, oh, I can't even think about this anymore.

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Like the pressure for me, it got so overwhelming.

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I was like, I can't participate in this anymore.

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I never really did because I've never had the patience to sit down for nail art that would take that long.

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But I don't know, I was so exposed to it on the internet and stuff that I just, I ended up kind of ditching nail art altogether.

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Also too, I was like, it doesn't match with anything.

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It's just, I don't know.

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I just was kind of put off by it in a way.

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And I was getting honestly just plain red nails for a long time.

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It always looks good.

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And it's still my favorite plain polish color.

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But I recently was like, you know what?

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I think I'm ready to get back into nail art a little bit.

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Nail art is cool because it's temporary.

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It's a temporary accessory.

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Like if you buy a pair of sunglasses, you're committing to that style of sunglass because you purchased an item, you know what I mean?

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When you're buying jewelry, you're committing to that style of jewelry.

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And that's an item that you ideally want to have and utilize for as long as possible.

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The cool thing about nail art is that it inevitably will come off your fingers.

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Yes, there is a financial commitment, but there's not like a material commitment.

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And I think now more than ever,

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that is a cool idea because trends have sort of taken Gen Z in a chokehold.

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Everybody is obsessed with purchasing whatever the next trend is and participating in the next trend, usually spawned through TikTok

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and I think it's leaving a lot of people with a lot of things in their closet

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that maybe they don't love enough.

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And I think a lot of people have become sort of addicted to participating in the trends

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because there's dopamine involved and we're also social creatures and we like to emulate one another and it's gotten a bit toxic.

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And I think the idea of nail art is kind of the perfect way to participate in trends

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in a way that doesn't leave you with this material responsibility.

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And so I sort of had this epiphany about nail art and I was like, I should be doing nail art.

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Yes, it takes a little bit of extra time, but it's kind of the most flexible accessory that there is.

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And so the key for me was figuring out how do I do nail art enough where it feels exciting to me, but not to the point where it doesn't match anything.

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And that's been sort of a fun challenge.

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and I've found so many cool, subtle, neutral nail art designs.

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Mismatched sets of like a bunch of neutral colors with like blobs and swirls of color on them.

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Like just simple, neutral designs.

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I will say the design I have right now is not really very simple or neutral.

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I have like colorful stripes going on, but they're not so overpowering that they're like clashing with any outfits.

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So I'm back into nail art.

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But I feel like for me, in order for them to feel like an accessory, the art can't be too detailed.

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I want it to almost feel like fabric or something, like an extension of the clothes, not like detailed painted stuff on the nails.

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Does this make sense?

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Anyway, moving on.

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Styling hoodies in a fashionable way, okay?

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Hoodies are known as a comfortable piece of clothing we think of hoodies

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and we think of going to the grocery store late at

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night as i mentioned earlier trying to like stay low-key about

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it hoping you don't run into anyone you know wearing sweatpants

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with it like we think of hoodies as being casual i

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don't think we we often associate hoodies with fashion you know putting together a fit

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if you will well recently my perspective on hoodies has changed.

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For a long time, if I wanted a warm outer garment that was lighter than a coat, I would wear a sweater.

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Recently, I'm getting into styling the hoodie in a way that feels elevated.

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Like I went to a birthday party and it was at a bar

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and it was definitely more of a formal evening and I styled a hoodie and I felt perfectly dressed for the occasion.

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I didn't feel underdressed.

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I styled it up until it felt elevated, you know?

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I wore a hoodie with a long skirt,

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actually a matching skirt, with a black leather jacket over it and pointy black leather boots in a black leather bag.

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Simple, comfortable, but it felt, it did feel elevated, you know?

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For more casual days, I've been grabbing hoodies like almost daily with jeans, with like any sort of casual pant, but styling it with like,

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you know, having a cool belt on and like wearing a cool shoe

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and like having a cool bag and like really just building it up.

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I don't know.

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I'm just loving a hoodie.

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I love the way it feels, but for some reason I've just been liking the way it looks too.

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But I also think it helps that I've found quite a few hoodies over the last few months.

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Like I've slowly but surely developed a collection of really cool hoodies that don't feel as athletic.

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They feel a little bit more fashion-y, if you will.

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And I think that's where this love is coming from.

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Because if you're wearing like a hoodie, like a Nike hoodie, and it's made out of like a sweat wicking material, that's a hard thing.

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Like you can't, that's a hard thing to style for like a night out, but like a simple, classic gray, cottony hoodie with a really good fit.

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Oh yeah, you could style that thing up.

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A hoodie made out of maybe an unconventional material, like some sort of knit material or something like that, that could be styled up.

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I think slowly but surely collecting a few hoodies like

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that made me realize not only is this a comfortable item of clothing, but it can also be a chic item of clothing.

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So I'm enjoying styling hoodies in a fashionable way.

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Moving on, classic square shaped black glasses.

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I know what you're thinking, Emma, why are you not wearing those right now?

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If you're watching the video version of this episode, I'm wearing round, very round glasses.

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I lost my favorite pair of square shaped black glasses.

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have no fear I ordered a replacement because I was very upset

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but for right now I don't have any square black reading

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glasses it's it's hard for me it's been hard it's been really hard

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but you know what they say you don't know what you got till it's gone

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and I honestly don't even think I would have realized how

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much I love this shape of eyeglass frame right now had I not lost them because it's been a loss.

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Like I can't tell you how often I reach for these, not just for like reading, but also I like styling them and going out in them.

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Luckily, I did not lose my square shaped black sunglasses, just my reading glasses.

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Oh, it's been hard because I rarely like to leave the house without glasses for some reason.

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It just, it weirdly is like a shield for me.

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It's like a protector for me.

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I can't explain it.

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It's psychological.

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I don't know why.

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Also, a lot of times I feel like the attitude that a pair of glasses adds to an outfit is very valuable.

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And so sometimes I'll put together an outfit and be like, ugh, something's missing.

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And then a lot of times I'll put on a pair of glasses and I'm like, that's what was missing.

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And during the day, it's much easier because sunglasses, you know, functional and cute.

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But in the evenings, it's more tough because can't wear sunglasses.

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It's kind of douchey vibes.

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Hey, I've done it.

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I've done it many times, but I don't like love doing it.

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I had a little phase where I love doing it and then it very quickly got old for me because I'm like, I actually can't see.

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So I've gotten into the routine of wearing, reading glasses out at night to add a little bit of spice to an outfit.

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And I cannot tell you how hard it's been without my square frames because honestly, I would say for the last month and a half,

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maybe two months, nine out of 10 times that I'm grabbing a glass,

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sunglass or optical, I have been grabbing my square shaped black glasses, classic square shape.

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You know it.

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You love it.

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You don't even need to be watching the video version of this episode to know what I'm talking about.

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You know what I'm talking about?

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Square shaped, square, kind of maybe rectangle, I guess, but kind of square, boxy shaped, classic sunglass shape.

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You imagine what a sunglass is shaped like?

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Boom.

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You imagine what a pair of reading glasses is shaped like?

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Boom, you know what I mean?

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It's just like the classic shape.

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I don't know, there's something just cool about it.

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I feel cool when I'm wearing that shape.

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Not that I'm like trying to be cool.

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And cool is maybe the wrong word

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because the least cool thing you can do is make a conscious choice to be cool.

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So that's not the right way of putting it.

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It's like, I feel like that shape of glass feels, you know what it feels like actually?

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It feels powerful in a weird way.

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There's something about like a rounded frame that feels a bit softer.

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There's something weirdly powerful about like a square shaped sunglass or reading glass.

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Like it just feels sharp and it feels kind of smart.

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There's something about the energy that I like.

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I like right now and I'm craving right now.

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Now back to the episode.

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Okay, next, cute bralettes, okay?

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think like vintage inspired silk bralettes gorgeous almost sort of lingerie

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but not like super sexy super like super sexy sexy sexy

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bralette think more like maybe a little bit more understated maybe

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a little bit more classic I have a lot of sheer shirts a lot of sheer shirts for some reason.

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Like I weirdly over the years have collected a lot of sheer shirts and they're great for layering,

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but something I haven't really been able to do is wear like a bralette under my sheer shirts.

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Why?

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Because I haven't found, I hadn't found the right ones, but I also hadn't really looked that hard because I've never really been into lingerie.

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So it's never really been my thing.

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I've always preferred comfort in my undergarments.

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And my thought has always been like, if somebody's taking the clothes off, take the undie off with the pants.

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You know what I mean?

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Like, I don't care.

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Like, let's just get, like, if we're going there, like, I don't need to, like, this doesn't need to be a show.

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You know what I mean?

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So I've just never really looked, and thus I've never really developed a collection of cute bralettes.

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And this has been sort of upsetting to me in some ways

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because there have been moments where I've been getting dressed and I've been like, oh, it'd be so cute if I wore, like, if I had a cute bralette to go under this top that's sheer,

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but it's sort of been this thing where it's been like a gap in my wardrobe.

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And the only time I've really ever thought about it is when I need it.

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Well, I don't need it.

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I don't really need anything, but it's like when I've wanted it and it hasn't been there, but then it's not like when I've been out shopping, I've been like, Oh, you know,

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I really do need to find some cute like bralettes

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that perhaps I could wear underneath sheer clothing as sort of like a fun element.

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Because again, as I said, I'm not somebody who really cares about lingerie.

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So like if I'm wearing a shirt where you can't see the bra through it, I'm wearing whatever the most comfortable bra is.

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Same thing goes for underwear.

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And listen, I might end up unlocking my lingerie era one day. Who knows?

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I actually feel like it's impending.

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Like I actually feel like it might happen soon.

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As my prefrontal cortex develops, little things become of interest to me that weren't interesting before.

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And I do think that there's a chance that lingerie is coming for me, you know, no pun intended, not really a pun.

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It wasn't really a good pun, but you know, coming.

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So, you know, whatever.

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But I do feel like there's a chance that like, I might get into that a little, but it's gotta be comfortable.

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Cause I'm, I'm very picky about my bras and underwear because I'm very particular about being very comfortable.

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Anywho, I mean, so the bralette thing for me is more of like, if the bra is going to be seen, I want it to be cute.

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Right.

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and I just never had any cute ones and slowly

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but surely I've started to develop a collection of them

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because I really did start looking and I've been finding some

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and you know it is a really like it's a fun

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way to layer it's a fun sexy way to layer to

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have like a gorgeous you know bralette underneath a shirt

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and it be seen it's kind of like a shirt it takes an undergarment

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and makes it fun

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and I know what you're thinking it's like Emma yeah we've

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all known this for years well listen I'm a little behind okay because I've just never been into it.

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If you're somebody who's into lingerie, you already have bralettes.

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You already have a cute little silk little bralette to wear under your gorgeous sheer button up top.

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You already have that.

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And you like feeling cute under your clothes.

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Well, guess what?

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I don't care about feeling cute under my clothes.

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I care about wearing granny panties that feel good on my butt and everywhere else.

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I care about wearing a bra that I barely can feel because I hate the feeling of a bra.

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It's really hard to find undergarments that are functional and cute.

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Hey, I'm not saying that they're not out there.

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They definitely are.

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But it's not an easy feat.

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And sometimes the most comfortable is a little ugly, you know?

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I've been on this journey to finding cute, comfortable bralettes that also look cute under clothes.

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And you know, I'm in a phase in my life now where I take my time with the shopping.

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So it's taken a bit of time.

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But now I have all the neutral colors I need.

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A nude one, a black one, a cream one.

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I'm good.

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So it's a vibe.

430

Okay, next.

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This is very random.

432

So stick with me here.

433

This is a very specific item.

434

I cannot express to you how specific it is.

435

But I actually will proceed to express to you how specific it is.

436

So I will tell you about this item through a story.

437

Okay.

438

A year or so ago, I bought this bag, a vintage bag.

439

It's green.

440

It has pockets on the front.

441

Kind of feels like if a pair of cargo pants were a bag.

442

There's like two pockets on the front with like fold over pockets and buckles.

443

It's a boxy sort of bag.

444

I love it.

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Recently, I had this idea to take my entire, I kid you not, my entire collection of buttons and pins,

446

cute little ones that say funny little things, have funny little pictures on them, and put it all over the back.

447

Something came over me and I was like, I feel like if this green bag had some colorful little details on it, it would really make my outfit right now.

448

And it worked because the bag is fabric, right?

449

So I could just poke it right through.

450

Ever since I did this with the bag, put the buttons all over it, I have used that bag like every day.

451

I kid you not.

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It's become my go-to bag.

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It was my, like, I loved that bag before and I used it all the time.

454

But I put all the buttons on it.

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That has become my go-to bag.

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All the colors on it, the fact that it's so dynamic, I am now obsessed with that bag.

457

It's the only bag I want to take around with me because it's the most interesting one.

458

But at the same time, what's great about it is that at any point I can take all of those buttons off, all those pins off, and I have my simple green bag again.

459

Sometimes really taking something that you love

460

and really putting effort into it to spice it up can

461

make you fall in love with it in a way you never even knew possible.

462

You know, it's become sort of a trend to personalize your bag, put a bunch of key chains on it, you know, attach jewelry to it, put stickers on it, like whatever,

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like it became a trend to sort of beat up your purse and give it personality.

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Perhaps this idea subconsciously came from that.

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But I think the reason why I love it so much is because I've collected the pins over time.

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Half of them are ones that I found online that I thought were funny and like matched my personality.

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The other half, random vintage ones that I found at like flea markets and stuff like that.

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But they all do feel personal to me.

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And I think that's what makes this sort of version of personalizing my bag feel kind of genuine, I guess, to me.

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Like it doesn't feel like I forced it.

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People were buying things that they didn't maybe even like that much to follow that trend.

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They were buying things that weren't personal to them.

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Key chains and clips and little like dangly things to add onto the bag.

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I always try to inspire

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myself and others to participate in trends only

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if it feels super honest to oneself in one's sense of style like

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if a trend pops up

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and it feels you great you know you probably already have the stuff then to participate in the trend

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because if it's so you you know you might already have it

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and if not you know i think an extra step of thought

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and due diligence is necessary in order to ensure

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that the trend is not being participated in just

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because it's simply a trend um not that i need to defend myself

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but i think the reason why this worked out so well was because i already had all those pins

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I already had that bag.

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And that I think is proof, at least to me, that it's like, okay, this is not following a trend wrongfully.

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This was just, I don't know.

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I think I'm making it a little bit deeper than it needs to be, I fear.

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I fear that I'm having a spiral about this and that I don't need to be.

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So let's move forward because I'm going off on a tangent that is so unnecessary, really unnecessary.

491

Let's move on.

492

Oh my God.

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The next thing I'm about to talk about might be my favorite thing on this whole list.

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Okay.

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It's a food item, a concoction that I came up with.

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Now, did I invent it?

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Probably not.

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I could probably find this sort of recipe online.

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It probably already exists, but I didn't see it online.

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Like I invented it.

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And so I feel like I invented it.

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So like, let me believe that I invented it.

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Okay.

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Let me explain it to you.

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You need green apples.

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You need vanilla flavored Greek yogurt.

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Okay.

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Or any sort of yogurt of choice

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but vanilla flavor is ideal i don't know is there caramel flavored yogurt

510

that could work um okay you need peanut butter powder pb2

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you know peanut butter powder it's like you know what peanut butter powder is it's it's peanut butter

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but but turned into powder okay you need flaky salt and optional

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if you want to find this very niche random product you

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need peanut butter extract okay yes i somehow found peanut butter extract don't ask me how i found

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that don't ask me how i know that

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that exists don't ask me why it's in my pantry

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but it is it's definitely an optional ingredient but i do think it adds a little bit

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of extra peanut flavor to this okay now there's a few ways

519

that you can assemble this

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but the most important element is this peanut butter yogurt okay

521

i take probably like anywhere between a half cup two-thirds cup

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of yogurt you want it sweet like don't do unsweetened this

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will not taste good i put in i kid you not

524

a fourth cup of peanut butter powder okay dumping it in

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dumping it in a little bit of the peanut butter extract

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flaky salt a little bit of water you need to put a a little bit of water in there.

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It's too thick to just mix the peanut butter powder into the yogurt.

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You need to add a little bit of water to help it mix.

529

Okay.

530

Now cut up that granny Smith apple or two.

531

Okay.

532

If you want to make a yogurt bowl, cut the apples into chunks.

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If you want to dip your apple slices into this yogurt, peanut butter mixture, be my guest.

534

Uh, when I first started making this bowl, I was cutting into chunks.

535

Then I realized, you know what?

536

There's something about eating cubes of apples over and over

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and over and over and over again in a yogurt bowl that's hurting my mouth.

538

It's like cutting up the roof of my mouth.

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I'm going to start doing slices.

540

So now I'm doing slices.

541

Just get that green apple into that yogurt and enjoy.

542

I mean, it is so good.

543

I don't, this is my snack of the moment.

544

Like I look forward to this snack.

545

It is so good.

546

And I'm telling you the flaky sea salt makes it.

547

And you might even want to take the flaky sea salt to the table with you

548

while you're eating because you might want to add a little bit more as you go.

549

It's so good.

550

Special shout out to my apple slicer, a very unnecessary kitchen gadget that I'm not sure why I have.

551

I don't even know when I bought it, when it came into my life, but I have it and I do use it every time I cut an apple because it makes it a lot easier.

552

I mean, cutting an apple is not that hard.

553

I'll tell you, it's really not.

554

But to just be able to push down and have like a bunch of big slices, I mean, you still got to do a little bit of grooming of the apple slices after that, right?

555

It's not like they're fully complete.

556

Cut them a little thinner, you know, cut off any little bits that maybe you didn't want in your slice, but definitely cuts the time down.

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So if you have one, show some love to it.

558

If you don't have one, you don't need one.

559

I don't know why I have it.

560

It's so bizarre.

561

I don't know where it came from, but I use it.

562

It's my favorite snack.

563

Just give it a try.

564

It's delicious.

565

It's fun to eat.

566

Like it's just such a joy.

567

I wonder how long this snack fixation will last.

568

To be honest, it might be years.

569

I could see this one going on years.

570

I had a phase with this one smoothie.

571

I was so obsessed with this one smoothie.

572

It was so good.

573

I think I drank it every day for over a year and then it got replaced by this snack, this apple peanut butter yogurt snack.

574

And I have a feeling I'm going to be on this one for a while.

575

You won't hear about me replacing the snack for a while.

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This is like one of the best snacks I've ever made.

577

I mentioned flaky salt.

578

And my next favorite thing is flaky salt.

579

I love flaky salt.

580

I like having a little dish of flaky salt out while I'm eating.

581

And I like to be able to add flaky salt as I'm eating.

582

Like, for example, I've been recently making a lot of soups.

583

And listen, my soup is salty, but like I try not to make my foods too salty

584

because it kind of scares me because like you can't take away salt, right?

585

You can only add it.

586

So I always, when cooking, under salt a little because I'm like, I can salt to taste in the moment.

587

And there's something about just digging into the little salt, the little salt thing, digging in there, pinching some salt, sprinkling it on your food, mixing it up, eating it.

588

Like there's something about the experience of like pinching the salt and crushing it in your fingers into your food

589

that's so satisfying and fun.

590

And it just adds to the experience while you're eating.

591

Like instead of taking a salt shaker and just whatever, hey, why not have a little dish out with some flaky salt?

592

It's fun.

593

A little extra, but I don't know.

594

Sometimes the little things like that can be weirdly satisfying and kind of fun.

595

Okay, next, another food item.

596

Let me tell you something about golden kiwis, okay?

597

Take everything you know about a normal kiwi.

598

What do you know about it?

599

Well, it's brown and fuzzy on the outside.

600

It's green on the inside.

601

It's tart.

602

It's a little sweet.

603

Okay, now imagine a kiwi that's the same, except when you cut it open, instead of it being green, it's golden.

604

And when you take a serrated spoon, if you have one, yes, I have those, so random, but so helpful for eating kiwis,

605

a spoon with like sharp edges for eating grapefruit or kiwi, anyway, very helpful.

606

Maybe that should be on this list as well.

607

Well, consider it added.

608

Okay, imagine taking your serrated spoon or your normal spoon, digging it into your kiwi and taking a bite and imagine taking a bite of the best kiwi you've ever had.

609

That is what a golden kiwi tastes like.

610

I didn't believe it.

611

Okay.

612

My dad started talking to me about golden Kiwis a few months ago.

613

He was like, Oh, have you tried golden Kiwis?

614

I was like, no, or maybe what is that?

615

He's like, it's like a Kiwi, but it's like better.

616

And I was like, come on.

617

Like Kiwis are already really good.

618

Like how could they get better?

619

And I kind of just didn't believe him, which is really rude in retrospect.

620

I couldn't imagine a Kiwi would be like that good.

621

And I couldn't imagine how like different, you know, a different breed of kiwi could be.

622

I was like, I don't know.

623

Anyway, over the holidays, when I was home for Thanksgiving specifically, my dad was like, get into a golden kiwi.

624

And I was like, all right, sure.

625

I tried it and I was like, oh, I totally get it.

626

The flavor is just a little bit sweeter, but also just a little bit tartar.

627

That's not a word than a regular kiwi.

628

It's like the flavors are turned up a notch, but also the texture is better.

629

The texture is a bit less grainy.

630

Like a kiwi is often very, is a bit grainy.

631

Well, let me tell you about a golden kiwi.

632

Smooth, a bit more buttery.

633

I don't know.

634

They are better.

635

So if you see golden kiwis at your local grocery store, pick them up and give them a try.

636

I actually just talking about them makes me want to have a golden kiwi right now.

637

So after I'm finished recording this episode, I'm going to go eat at least four of them.

638

And let me tell you, they go down easy.

639

I can eat so many golden kiwis in one sitting and they probably help you poop.

640

I bet I poop amazingly after I eat them.

641

I don't know for sure, but I can imagine that it's not hurting.

642

Next, another food item.

643

We have sesame anything.

644

I've always loved sesame.

645

It's been a flavor profile that I've loved for many years, but recently I'm just really into it.

646

I'm gravitating towards it.

647

I'm like putting sesame seeds on everything.

648

Okay.

649

If I can add sesame seeds to something, I will.

650

If it remotely makes sense from a flavor profile perspective, I am adding sesame seeds.

651

I went to an ice cream shop.

652

They had a sesame flavor ice cream.

653

I got it.

654

It was delicious.

655

Very recently, actually, I went to a coffee shop.

656

I wanted to get a drink.

657

I wanted to get something to sip on, but I couldn't do caffeine.

658

It was too late in the day.

659

I just couldn't do it.

660

And so I got a sesame latte.

661

Okay.

662

If you don't know what a sesame latte is,

663

it's basically like sesame paste mixed with water and then milk is added to it. So good. So good.

664

Now I'm obsessed with sesame lattes.

665

Delicious.

666

Add a little bit of honey to it.

667

Yum.

668

Yum.

669

Yum.

670

Yum.

671

Yum.

672

There's just something about it.

673

Sesame oil.

674

Oh my God.

675

To like, if you cook anything in sesame oil, it'll taste good.

676

I'm craving sesame right now.

677

It's all I want.

678

Moving on.

679

Weird dessert fixation I've been having lately.

680

All I want to do is eat a brownie or a chocolate cake.

681

A dense chocolate dessert is what I want right now.

682

Now this is weird because I normally don't care for, I mean, I always love a brownie.

683

I always love a chocolate cake. Who doesn't?

684

There's probably a few people out there, but they're few and far between.

685

That's obviously a delicious dessert.

686

Like obviously duh.

687

And if it's in front of me, like, yes, but I feel like there was a long period of time

688

there where I'd probably choose something else before I choose a brownie or a chocolate cake.

689

But for some reason right now, I am craving that a dense,

690

chocolatey, super rich, chocolatey, chocolatey, chocolatey baked dessert.

691

That's just what I want.

692

And I did make brownies a week ago and it was very fun to make.

693

It was very fun to eat.

694

But that's just my dessert craving right now.

695

I used to be more of like a chocolate chip cookie cinnamon roll.

696

I don't know kind of girl, but like a brownie with ice cream to me right now, that is perfect to me right now.

697

And last but not least, for the list of things that I like right now, I like what I can't have.

698

Ooh, there's just something about it.

699

There's something about what I can't have right now that I like.

700

If I can't have something right now, I like it.

701

I really like it.

702

Yeah.

703

And we'll end on that note.

704

So that's all.

705

That's all for today.

706

I will check back in with you soon on more things that I like, but we have to let time pass because that is how the list forms.

707

So if you enjoy this episode, stay tuned.

708

There'll be another one.

709

I can't tell you when because I can't force the list to be finished, right?

710

It just, it happens when it does.

711

But until then, new episodes every Thursday about a lot of different topics.

712

If you wanna watch video episodes, see fun pictures on screen sometimes, that's on YouTube and Spotify.

713

If you wanna just listen, you can listen anywhere.

714

Anything Goes is on social media at Anything Goes.

715

I'm on the internet at Emma Chamberlain and my coffee company exists and it's called Chamberlain Coffee.

716

Thank you all for listening and hanging out. As always, it's a joy to psychoanalyze things with you to the point

717

where I start to feel my sense of reality sort of escaping me, to be honest.

718

Perhaps that's just who I am as a person.

719

And I'm grateful if you made it to this point in the episode that you can tolerate me that long.

720

So that's a blessing.

721

And I'm very grateful for you.

722

Thank you for listening.

723

Thank you for hanging out.

724

I love you.

725

And I'll talk to you soon.

726

Bye.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “my quiet morning routine and other things i like rn”. This video has 726 sentences and 8155 words to shadow. The speech runs for 42:10. The speaker talks fast, about 193 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 80% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
nail noun	/neɪl/	The horny plate or appendage at the ends of the digits of various animals, including most reptiles, birds, and mammals (both nonhuman and human).
kiwi noun	/ˈkiːwi/	A flightless bird of the order Apterygiformes native to New Zealand.
sesame noun	/ˈsɛsəmi/	A tropical Asian plant (Sesamum indicum) bearing small flat seeds used as food and as a source of oil.
peanut noun	/ˈpiˌnʌt/	A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea, native to South America.
bralette noun		A kind of bra without an underwire, used as a training bra.
yogurt noun	/ˈjɒɡ.ət/	A milk-based product stiffened by a bacterium-aided curdling process, and sometimes mixed with fruit or other flavoring.
flaky adjective	/ˈfleɪki/	Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
obsess verb	/əbˈsɛs/	To be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion.
sunglasses noun		Tinted glasses worn to protect the eyes from the sun or other bright light, and may also be worn as a fashion accessory.
charade noun	/ʃəˈɹeɪd/	A single round of the game charades, an acted form of the earlier riddles.
flavor noun	/ˈfleɪvə/	The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
grocery noun	/ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹi/	Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.
snack noun	/snæk/	A light meal.
sheer adjective	/ʃɪɚ/	Very thin or transparent.
lingerie noun	/ˌlɑn.ʒəˈɹeɪ/	Underwear or nightclothes (typically women's), especially when lacy or designed to be seductive.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
act out verb	/ˌækt ˈaʊ̯t/	To perform something specific.
wake up verb	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	To stop sleeping; to awake.
cut up verb		To cut upward.
end up verb		To bring to a conclusion.
get out verb		To leave or escape.
go through verb		To travel from one end of something to the other.
make out of verb		To construct from; to create (something) using (a material or substance).
sit down verb		To assume a sitting position from a standing position.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

You know what I'm talking about?
Do I need to explain this?
You imagine what a sunglass is shaped like?
Boom, you know what I mean?
You know what I mean?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	I've been waking · I've really been enjoying · I've been thinking
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	I've probably found · I've loved · I've had
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	is presented · being fed · are known
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	somebody who definitely · afternoon, which was · somebody who really

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 262 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: smoothie /ˈsmuːði/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: charade /ʃəˈɹeɪd/, sheer /ʃɪɚ/, lingerie /ˌlɑn.ʒəˈɹeɪ/, casual /ˈkæʒ(u)əl/, fixation /fɪksˈeɪʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: unnecessary /ʌnˈnɛs.əˌsɛɹ.i/, accessory /əkˈsɛs.(ə.)ɹi/, undergarment /ˈʌndɚˌɡɑɹmənt/, psychological /ˌsaɪ.kəˈlɑː.d͡ʒɪ.kl̩/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like nail, kiwi, sesame.

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